How Aspirin Caused 1918
Flu Deaths...and why keeping aspirin in the medicine chestand keeping poultry near the house or eating aninfected bird is NOT a good idea -- even today.

The 1918 Flu ¦ How It
Happened

Humans have genetically developed a natural method
to defeat viralinfections called a fever. With a mild fever
of 101 degrees the telomerson the ends of the RNA molecule cannot attach
and the virus cannotreproduce itself, and the body's white blood
cells quickly destroy theinvading virus. But the modern regular treatment
for a fever from a coldor flu is to reduce the fever to ease the discomfort.
This
is wrong.

The traditional knowledge of how to quickly and
effectively cure acommon cold or flu infection due to viruses has
been known worldwidesince ancient times. But you are not supposed
to know that. You are notsupposed to know that you can quickly cure
a viral infection overnightby yourself and at no cost to you. You
are supposed to believe that youneed costly medications and medical treatments
to cure newlife-threatening diseases.

Best advice: do not try to lower a fever, it is
your genetically derivednatural human defense against any viral infection.
Stay wrapped up andwarm to cause a sweat. Drink fluids to replace
the water lost bysweating. And within 6 to 8 hours overnight the
cold or flu is gone.Many older doctors knew this, which is the reason
for the old docsadvice, go to bed, stay warm, drink fluids. But
younger docs justout of med school have been taught there is a
drug or pill to treateverything. The result of using expensive pills
or over-the-countermedications to reduce the fever from colds and
flu is prolonged illness,the epidemic spread of viral diseases and the
unneeded deaths ofhundreds of thousands each year. Don't buy them,
don't let them in the house.

MURDER IN THE MEDICINE CABINET

PART ONE The Deadliest Killer of the 20th Century,
With More Deaths Than All the World Wars, Lurks Right Inside Your House,
and Threatens to Take You and Your Family. The Story No One Told You.

In 1918, a virulent, never seen before, form of
influenza seemed tosuddenly appear. It seemed to kill within hours,
and spread around theworld within days. It seemed to appear simultaneously
all around theworld. Its spread was faster than any then known
means of human travel.

In 2004, the Centers for Disease Control and the
World HealthOrganization warned of repeats of such a rapid
and deadly pandemic,through such variants of influenza as SARS and
Bird Flu. But withoutknowing what caused the 1918 pandemic or how
it spread, how can the CDC or WHO make such a claim? Unless they already
know something they are not telling.

As yet no one has been able to identify the actual
medical cause of the1918 Flu, with only a few samples of a "bird-like"
virus taken from onlyseveral cadaver tissue samples. But no sample
is complete. And those areonly one or two samples from among the estimated
20 to 40 million peoplewho seemed to die mysteriously almost overnight.
The 1918 Flu spreadfaster and was more deadly, killing more people
than even the Plague andBlack Death of the middle ages. Why does no one
talk about it?

And even if the viral cause were identified, no
one can explain thelightning fast spread of the disease. Maybe it
wasn't a disease afterall. Many researchers have even looked at some
world-wide phenomena,such as extra-terrestrial biology filtering into
the atmosphere fromouter space. Or maybe, the jet stream spreading
disease-laden dust fromAsia all around the world in a matter of days.
In an area ofinvestigation where there seems to be no real
facts and less logic, any"fringe theory" or "outre logic" is just as valid
as any other. Maybesomething about the 1918 Flu is being covered
up. Something that we arenot supposed to know.

Actually, there is another rather simple mundane
solution to the medicalmystery. There did exist in 1918 a then new technical
invention by whichthe "disease" was spread almost at the speed
of light. The "1918 Flu"was spread around the world almost instantaneously
by telephone. Ofcourse, that claim needs an explanation, and
proof.

In the 1890's an American chemist made an improvement
on an old homefolk remedy called Willow or Aspen Tea. It seemed
to relieve the painsof old-age gout, arthritis and other assorted
pains. But the eviltasting tea containing acetylsalicylic acid was
so strong that it causedmany people to have nausea and vomiting, along
with the pain relief ifthey could tolerate drinking the tea. This potion
was later neutralized,synthesized and buffered, and then sold to the
German Bayer company as apain reliever.

I have researched the source and history of the
name Aspirin and foundno reasonable explanation has ever been found.
I have found, instead,that the German Bayer company, in order to sell
to both the American andEuropean markets, used a name familiar in both
markets. In America thecommon folk remedy form was called "Aspen Tea"
made from boiling willowbark from the Aspen tree family. In Europe, the
same home remedy wascalled "Spirain Tea" made from boiling the leaves
of the common Europeanshrub Spirae.

Both preparations were found to contain large
amounts of naturalacetylsalicylic acid, but unbuffered. Combining
the common home-remedyfolklore names Aspen and Spirain comes up with
the Euro-American brandname Aspirin. My research is the sole source
for the information aboutthat unique derivation of the brand name.

The reason for the deep confusion and lack of
any clear history about thetrade name is that for almost a decade from 1905
to about 1915, the use ofthe trade name, and the source of the name Aspirin,
was tied up ininternational courts. In the late 1890's when
Aspirin became available asan easy to use "pop a pill" replacement to the
sour tasting Aspen orSpirain Teas, many people used it to relieve
the pain of joint arthritis.Many users also discovered, quite by accident,
a unique side effect. Ifyou had a fever when you took the Aspirin, it
also made the fever suddenlygo away. What a discovery! It appeared to be
a cure for the the commoncold and flu.

By 1905 many other drug companies were making
acetylsalicylic acidpreparations and calling it Aspirin, but they
were selling it as a commoncold remedy. Bayer took these other companies
to court and sued overillegal use of their trademark. Many people believe
that Bayer lost thedecision and lost control of the name Aspirin.
Most believe that Aspirinis now a generic name such as Kleenex, Scotch
Tape or Xerox. Not so. Itwas an odd court decision and a confusing compromise.
By 1915 it wasdecided in court that Bayer had the exclusive
use of the tradenameAspirin, if it were sold as a pain-relieving
analgesic.

The court also found that the other companies
could also use the nameAspirin, if in their ads and packaging, they
claimed that their productwas an anti-febril agent or a fever reducer.
This odd court decision isstill in use today. You can still buy Bayer aspirin
to relieve pain, andon the store shelf right next to it is Nyquil,
Aleve, Tylenol, Motrin,Bufferin, Anacin and a whole long list of others,
all containing aspirinor aspirin-like compounds and claiming to be
treatments for Colds, Flu andFever. Reducing fever was not in Bayer's original
patent claim. Bayerdidn't know in 1895 of the use of aspirin as
a fever reducer and had notput that in their original trademark application.

And how does that strange court decision fit into
the rapid spread ofthe 1918 Flu? The primary defense which the human
body has, to stop thespread of viral infections is to produce a fever.
The fever is not asymptom of disease, but is actually the body's
primary anti-viral immunesystem. The fever stops the telomeres on the
ends of viral RNA from makingcopies of itself.

The telomeres are like a zipper which unzips and
separates the new RNAcopy within miliseconds, but the telomeres are
temperature sensitive andwon't unzip at temperatures above 101F. Thus
the high temperature of thefever, stops the flu virus from dividing and
spreading. It is an immunesystem response which only mammals have developed
to prevent the spread of viral flu infections, which mostly 99% come
from the more ancientdinosaur-like earth life forms called birds.
Almost all influenza is aform of "Avian Flu." A few influenza forms
come from other dinosaur-likelife forms, the modern reptiles, but these are
usually classified as veryrare tropical diseases, since that is where most
reptiles live.

The doctors in the early 1900's didn't know about
that, and even todayfew if any doctors are aware that fever is not
a symptom of disease, butis the primary and only way for the human body
to stop viral infections.If you stop or reduce the fever, viruses are
allowed to divide and spreaduncontrolled throughout the body. I have already
described this process indetail in my articles posted in the Brother Jonathan
Gazette in 2003, so Iwon't go into detail here. Do a search on "SARS"
on the Gazette and you'llfind the articles. Normally the progress of a
flu is that a virusenters the mucous membrane lining of the lungs,
enters cells, then makesmany copies of itself, which causes the cell
to expand to such an degreethat it bursts open. The new viruses then cloak
themselves with a coatingtaken from the old damaged cell wall, thus hiding
themselves from thehuman body's own T-cell antibody immune defense
system. To the body'simmune system the new viruses simply appear to
be pieces of the body's ownlung tissue.

By creating a fever, the viral infection is slowed
down sufficiently sothat the body's T cells can find the swollen
infected lung cells, surroundthem and metabolize (literally eat) the damaged
cell with strong acidswhich also breaks down the RNA viruses into basic
amino acids. Thiseffectively "kills" the viruses so that they
can't reproduce. But virusesare not living things, and you can't kill something
that's not alive. Allthe body can do is destroy or dissolve the RNA
amino acid chain whichmakes up the virus.

Not knowing this, most doctors treat the flu with
aspirin or feverreducers, as a palliative treatment to ease the
aches, pains, and deleriumfever effects. The result is that within hours,
the fever goes down andthe patient feels much better. What neither the
patient nor the doctorknows is that with only a normal 98.6F body temperature,
the viruses areallowed to reproduce unchecked. Within 72 hours,
the viruses have grownfrom one or two virus bodies to millions or billions.
The body is nowcompletely overwhelmed. But while taking aspirin
or cold medications,there are no symptoms or warnings of what is
yet to come.

As a last resort the body tries to quickly flush
the infection ofbillions of viruses from the lungs with massive
amounts of T-cells, andfluid in the lungs to "cough out" the virus.
This is called viralpneumonia. Soon within hours the patient is in
the hospital. The doctorstry to treat the now 105 degree fever with more
anti-febril aspirins, orrelated medications to "treat the fever." Then
within another 24 hours thepatient, suffocating and gasping for breath,
is dead.

You should note that the original infection did
cause a mild fever, achesand pains, which the patient "self-medicated"
with over-the-counterproducts. For the next several days, the patient
seemed to have nosymptoms, but was actually growing billions of
copies of influenza virusin his lungs. Then days later, the patient and
doctor seem to see a suddenrapid case of viral flu infection that is now
overwhelming the body. Isthat what really happened? What caused the patient's
death? Was itthe original flu virus, or was it the use of
Aspirin to lower the flufever which then shutdown the patient's own immune
system response?Obviously, the latter. So how did this cause
the massive rapid spread ofthe 1918 Flu?

The Bayer court case had just been settled, and
many companies otherthan Bayer, could now legally market aspirin
to treat colds and fever. Butthen "The Great War to End all War" was on, and
most aspirin products were going directly to the front lines in France
to treat the soldiers in thediseased hell hole trenches of WWI.

The World War I medics knew that aspirin could
quickly reduce a fever.If a soldier had a fever, the docs gave aspirin.
Magically the fever wentdown, the soldier felt better and quickly went
back to the fighting. Thenthree days later, the same soldier was back,
now with severe pneumonia anddied almost overnight.

No doctors then made the connection between aspirin
and pneumonia death,since the trenches were filled with many other
seemingly related diseasessuch as diphtheria or tuberculosis. Death and
dying on the front line wascommon, so no investigation was done. Aspirin
seemed to be a god-sendsince it allowed sick soldiers to swiftly get
right back into the fighting.

After the Armistice of November 11, 1918 the fighting
stopped and thesoldiers went home. The soldiers around the world
announced the good news to their families back home. Most of the low-ranked
doughboys had to wait till they got back to their homebase in Kansas, or
wherever, to call home They couldn't afford the costly trans-Atlantic deep
sea cable phone rates.But when the troop arrived in Kansas, the call
from sergeant Tom wassomething like: "Hey mom, I'm coming home. I'll
see yu and dad nextTuesday in Chattanooga. How's everybody? Oh,
Aunt Esther has a fever? Hey tell her to take some aspirin. Yeah, that
stuff in the medicine cabinetfor treatin' the aches and pains. Tell Esther,
we used it in France. Worksright away and the fever is gone. OK see yu Tuesday...."

So what does Esther do? She tries the aspirin,
but the old Bayer labelonly says its for "aches and pains" and says
nothing about fevers. Shetakes it and magically the fever is gone, and
she feels much better,almost cured. She's so much better, she gets
out the horse and buggy to gosee her sister, Lucy in Mt Carmel, where Lucy
and the kids are down withthe fever. Mt. Carmel has no telephones and even
no roads, only the buggypath to reach the outside world. But within hours
of sergeant Tom's phonecall home, by word of mouth, everybody in rural
Mt. Carmel is now takingaspirin to treat fevers. Since the new information
came from a soldier,from the US Army and the government, it must
be true!

Within a week of the 1918 Armistice, by newfangled
telephone,trans-oceanic telephone cables, and even the
experimental ship-to-shoreshortwave radios using Morse code, the message
was flashed around theworld -- "Have a fever? Take Aspirin. It worked
in France, it'll work foryou." That message spread at nearly the speed
of light over millions oftelephone lines all around the world. The news
of the "miracle cure" evenspread by word of mouth within a day or so, even
to places with no phonesnor roads. Mysteriously, a week later, doctors
round the world nowhad hundreds of sick and dying patients. Nobody
could figure out why. Thepatients themselves never reported that just
the week before they did havea mild fever. But it was so mild that when they
took some aspirin, itsimply went away. Nobody made the connection.
The doctors only saw, byNovember 24, 1918 thousands of very sick patients
with high fevers, lungsfilled with fluid, and swift overnight death.

The medical profession had never seen anything
like it before, norsince. It seemed to occur simultaneously all
around the world and evenreaching into such out of the way places like
Mt. Carmel with notelephones nor roads. How could such a massive
fast-spreading killerdisease exist? It didn't. It wasn't a disease.
It was a new use for an oldhome folk remedy which everybody already had
in their medicine cabinet,Bayer Aspirin to reduce fever.

The medical profession, at a complete loss to
explain it, simply calledit the "Spanish Flu" or the "1918 Flu" or many
similar names. It was amystery with no known source, so it was assigned
many place names. So far,nobody has been able to prove any single pathogen
was responsible. Andeven if they did, they still can't explain how
it seemed to spreadworld-wide at almost the speed of light, clear
around the world within aweek.

To this day there is no explanation. But, now
you know. The "disease"was not a single pathogen, but many of the hundreds
of similar types offlu which are always existing at any time around
the world. What wasdifferent in November 1918 was the many hundreds
of thousands of almostsimultaneous phone calls from the millions of
returning sergeant Tomssaying, "...tell Aunt Esther to take the aspirin.
It worked in France.It'll work for her..." Nobody traced the spread
of the 1918 Flu tosergeant Tom. Nobody made the connection.

That very same source of disease still exists
today. What is differenttoday is that cold and flu products are sold
and used all year long. Thisresults in an estimated one million deaths from
mysterious viral pneumoniareported every year, but also all around the
year. In 1918, the new use ofaspirin for treating colds and flu all started
at the same time inNovember, thus creating the false impression
of a sudden massive onset ofa new disease. Even today SARS is not a disease.
It is the improper use ofa brand new high-tech flu fighter called Tamiflu.
The FDA approved the useof Tamiflu several years ago. In 2003 it began
to be used world-wide. Buthow is it used?

Many millions of people around the world still
self-treat their owncolds and flu with over-the-counter meds containing
aspirin. Those are themost commonly sold medications in the world.
The patient's mild feverquickly goes away. They forget about ever having
felt sick. Then severaldays later the patient sees the doctor and now
has a high fever, bad coughand fluid-filled lungs. The doctor, using the
new CDC and WHO guidelines,treats the hospitalized "flu" patient with the
new high-tech Tamiflu. Buthow often and at what dosage?

The doctors do what they've always done for the
past 100 years. Tell thenurse to stick a thermometer in the patient's
mouth, increase the Tamifludosage by 10cc's every hour until the fever starts
to drop.

Then maintain that dosage level until the patient
dies. Then blame the deathon some new highly contagious lethal virus. Nothing
new here. It's the same old story, since 1918. The only thing different
is that they give it a new namelike SARS, or Bird Flu or whatever sounds nifty
and high-tech. Even today,each year about one million people world-wide
die from the very same"disease" which first appeared in the fall of
1918. Has medicine, in thelast 100 years, turned this "contagion" from
Pandemic by Phone, intoIllness by Internet? Is it the rapid and continuous
spread ofmisinformation that is still killing millions?